get part of a string within the brackets

[jasonc]

I have the following string format and wish to get just the part within the brackets.

 

$string = "something (this)";

 

$result = "this";

 

what is the best way to get this part of the string?

[gevans]

Is the bracketed text always going to be at the end of the string? If so it may be faster to use a couple of String Functions, otherwise preg_match, a PCRE Function would be better.

[jasonc]

i have taken a look at the preg_replace as i wish to echo the string part on the page.

 

i have taken a bit of code i have for another string that i have on the page and thought if i replaced the A-Z and replaced it with () it would also work, i dont understand how this should work.

 

substr(preg_replace("/([()])/",',\\1',$string),1)

 

the string could be many formats...

 

"something (this)"

"somthing (this) something else"

 

but it is just the part within the () that is needed.

 

 

[gevans]

This should work for you;

 

$test_string = 'somthing (this) something else';
$pattern = "/\(([^\)]*)\)/";
preg_match($pattern, $test_string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];